The tenth anniversary Night at the Museum will take place in Moscow on May 21. By tradition, the Museum of Moscow opens the doors to its exhibitions and also prepares a special program.

From 10 a.m. all exhibitions at the Museum of Moscow will be open for free, and from 6 p.m. curators will conduct original tours of the exhibitions. Guests of the Museum will be able to learn about the first explorers of Moscow at the exhibition “Muscovologists”, see Moscow in the paintings of avant-garde artists, surrealists, socialist realists and hyperrealists at the exhibition “Moscow and Muscovites in the Art of the 20th – 21st Centuries”, take a “photo walk” through the hundred-year history of the surroundings of the Museum of Moscow at exhibition “Around Provisions. Khamovniki".

In the evening, in the theater hall at the exhibition “Moscow and Muscovites” the play “Twelfth Night” by the PDK Drama theater will be shown, after which there will be a concert of wind ensembles - the group “VAKH-VAKH Band” and the “Yauza” orchestra.

At the Lecture Hall of the Museum of Moscow at 15:00 there will be a lecture “The Role of Architectural Monuments in Society” by Elena Kulchinskaya, and at 17:00 there will be a screening of the film “Moscow, My Love”

The Documentary Film Center at the Museum of Moscow will present two new films: at 19:00 “The Wolf Pack”, shown for the first time in Russia at the Festival of Contemporary Documentary Films about the City and People “Center” and at 21.30 “Ordinary Miracles: New York Through the Eyes of PhotoLeague”, about the work of the revolutionary New York association, which changed the idea of ​​photojournalism in metropolitan areas in the mid-twentieth century.

The city tour bureau of the Museum of Moscow invites you to spend a Night at the Museum outside the walls of the museum buildings on Zubovsky Boulevard. A new route “Night in the Metro” was invented especially for the event - together with employees of the capital’s metro, participants in the action will be able to get to the stations of the first line of the “subway” after its closure, learn the innermost secrets of the construction of the Sokolnicheskaya line, personal stories of the architects of these stations and the features of today’s subway structure .

As part of a special program for the Night of Museums, branches of the Museum of Moscow will open their doors and conduct free sightseeing tours of their exhibitions.

Please note that no more than 15 people can be in the Moscow Museum of Archeology at a time.

Program:

Museum of Moscow

10:00 – 24:00.

Curated excursions

exhibition “Ancient and Medieval Moscow” 6 sessions: at 18.30, 19.30, 20.00, 20.30, 21.00 and 22.00.

exhibition “Moscow experts” 2 sessions: 19.00, 21.00

exhibition “Moscow and Muscovites in the art of the XX-XXI centuries” 2 sessions: at 18:00, 21:00

Music in the yard

The Why Not (indie pop, alternative)

Red Red Rose (art-rock, neo-psychedelia)

Rita Kolesnikova (indie pop, alternative)

Carbon White (indie pop, alternative)

Starlite (indie pop, alternative)

Sun Q (garage rock, psychedelic rock)

Entrance to the Museum closes at 23:40

Poplar Alley, 6; Starye Kuzminki, 13-15

Varvarka, 4A

Lefortovo History Museum

Kryukovskaya, 23

19:00 — Costume show “Taking the oath” (“Giving a handwritten note”)

Manezhnaya sq., 1A

10:00 – 24:00
Free excursions lasting 30 minutes.

Due to special conditions, visits to the Museum of Archeology will be carried out by a limited number of people (15 people each) at the following sessions: 10-30 11-00 11-30 12-00 12-30 13-00 13-30 14-00 14-30 15-00 15-30 16-00 16-30 17-00

Important! No more than 15 people can be in the museum at a time!

Museum of Russian Harmonica A. Mirek

2nd Tverskaya-Yamskaya, 18

Free exposition tours.

18:00 — Concert “Night at the Museum”

Waterfront House Museum

Serafimovicha, 2

Free exposition tours.

From May 21 to 22, Moscow will host “Night at the Museum” for the tenth time, the most popular citywide cultural event among lovers of smart entertainment. Traditionally, more than 200 museums, galleries, art schools and art centers will open their doors to visitors from 18:00 and will work free of charge until late at night. The anniversary event “Night at the Museum” will be dedicated to “the most important of the arts” and dedicated to the Year of Russian Cinema, announced in 2016.

This year, as part of the event, a record number of excursions will take place - more than 130 museum excursions and several dozen city excursions, including those in the form of quests. In addition, the “Nights” program includes about 60 concerts, 30 film screenings and film lectures, dozens of performances, performances, interactive programs and scientific shows.

As part of the “Behind the Scenes” project, visitors will have the opportunity to enter museum spaces that are otherwise inaccessible and learn the secrets of museum exhibitions. The excursions will be conducted by professional experts, curators, and media personalities. The project involves the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art on Petrovka, the Museum of Contemporary History of Russia, VDNKh, the Moscow Zoo, the Polytechnic Museum and many others.

On the night of the event, many venues will prepare special thematic programs. For example, the A. S. Pushkin Museum invites you to the concert “Favorite Melodies of the Screen” performed by the State Brass Band of Russia. In the exhibition hall “Gallery on Kashirka” the Mayakovsky Museum will hold a lecture “Mayakovsky and the cinema of the 1920s”, and will also show the film “The Young Lady and the Hooligan” based on the script of the Soviet poet with him in the title role. The exhibition “Cinema and Fashion. Dresses of famous film actresses from the Alexander Vasiliev Foundation,” and the Solyanka Gallery will present a non-stop program of the best Russian and foreign surreal cinema.

“Night at the Museum” will not be limited to art spaces and will offer guests of all ages a rich parallel program in parks, squares and pedestrian areas of the capital.

On Theater Square, in the Hermitage Garden and MUZEON Park, “Night Stations” will operate from noon until midnight, each of which will be dedicated to one of the film genres - feature films, documentaries and animation. In addition to film screenings, guests will enjoy master classes and lectures selected by the curators of the stations’ special program. From 12:00 to 15:00 there is a children's program, and from 15:00 to 00:00 - the main one.

The children's program of the "art" station (Theater Square) is supervised by the project "Made in Cardboard", and the main program is collected by the Cinema Museum - one of the young museums with a unique collection dedicated to Russian film culture. The educational project “Moscow Through the Eyes of an Engineer” is responsible for the “documentary” station (MUZEON Park), and the Animation Film School-Studio is responsible for the “animation” station (Hermitage Garden).

This year, the all-Russian event Night of Museums falls on the night of May 20-21. Every year in Moscow, more than 200 museums, galleries, exhibition halls and art centers take part in this celebration of art and culture. Many of them not only open their doors to visitors at night, but also prepare special projects.

The Institute of Russian Realistic Art will have free admission all day from 11 am to 12 midnight, and many special programs await guests.

Recently, IRRI carried out a complete reconstruction of its halls, updated the permanent exhibition and organized an architectural course for children, so it is no coincidence that for the Night of Museums the organizers chose the theme “Museum of the Future”, inviting the famous Spanish architect Antonio Ortiz to give a lecture (bureau Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos).

The public talk with his participation will begin at 19:00. Ortiz will talk about renovation and redesign projects, including the renovation of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, which Antonio Cruz and Antonio Ortiz admittedly “restored to its former glory.” How do modern technologies affect the design and construction of museums? What determines a person’s perception of a museum space? How did architects imagine museums at the beginning of the new millennium, and what did they get right?

Together with Antonio Ortiz, these questions will be answered by Russian experts in the field of architects, as well as those for whom the museums of the future are being created - children participating in the IRRI architectural course “From Design to Object.”

At 17:00, the architects of the “Horses on the Balcony” club will hold a master class for children and adults “I am a museum exhibit,” where guests will have the opportunity to become a work of art in the museum themselves.

Also, from five in the evening to eleven at night, an interactive quest tour “The Hundred-Year Secret of Tsindel Castle” will take place every hour. IRRI, MosPromArt and PSN Group will conduct a tour of the territory of the former Tsindel factory, and now the Novospassky business district, on the territory of which, in the building of a former boiler house, IRRI is located today. The journey through the ancient cotton-printed manufactory will take place in the format of a theatrical performance. Together, the quest participants will unravel the secrets of the former owner of the factory, its red brick buildings and learn the secrets of paintings from the IRRI collection.

Also on the evening's program is the Art Market fair - from early morning until late at night there will be a fair with the participation of Russian designers, artists, photographers, who are united by a boundless love for prints and designs on handmade products. Many of their works are inspired by the patterns that brought world fame to the Partnership calico-printed manufactory " Emil Tsindel».

At 13-00, 16-00 and 22.00 guests will enjoy free sightseeing tours of the main exhibition and the “Stories” exhibition. IRRI art historians will conduct free one-hour tours of the completely updated permanent exhibition, as well as the temporary exhibition “Stories”, dedicated to the history of masterpieces by Alexander Deineka, Igor Grabar, Arkady Plastov, Yuri Pimenov, Viktor Popkov, Geliy Korzhev and others. For the first time in many years, the Institute of Russian Realistic Art presents in Moscow the textbook work of Pyotr Ossovsky “Three Generations” (1960), stored in the Perm State Art Gallery, as well as the painting “Bather” (1951, State Tretyakov Gallery) by Alexander Deineka, which has long been for restoration and not exhibited.

Institute of Russian Realistic Art (IRRI)

On May 21, the traditional festival “Night of Museums 2016” will be held throughout Russia. According to the event program, not only Russian museums, but also libraries, parks, estates, theaters and exhibition halls will open their doors on this day. Let's find out what the night of museums will be like on May 21, 2016, and where you should go.

"Night of Museums" in Moscow

The most famous and visited museums and exhibition halls of the capital are participating in this large-scale event. The Tretyakov Gallery, the Pushkin Museum, the Museum of Moscow and others will open their doors.

Tretyakov Gallery

From 18:00 to midnight the halls of the famous Tretyakov Gallery will be open. For the anniversary of the Soviet avant-garde painter Wassily Kandinsky, museum workers have prepared an exhibition that includes the painter’s school work.

Address: Krymsky Val, 10.

Museum of Moscow

On May 21, 2016, as part of the “Night of Museums” event, the opening of the exhibitions “ Moscow and Muscovites in painting of the 20th-21st centuries», « Moscow experts" Free admission.

Address: Zubovsky blvd., 2.

State Museum of A. S. Pushkin

The night at the Pushkin Museum will be held under the motto “ Favorite screen ringtones" From 19:00 to 22:00 works by famous Russian composers (Khachaturyan, Tariverdiev) will be performed here. The concert performance will then be continued by the Serenade ensemble.

Address: Prechistenka, 12/2.

Patriarchal Museum of Church Art

On May 21, during the Night of Museums 2016 festival, you should visit the Patriarchal Museum of Church Art. Spectators will be shown unique examples of icon painting from the Russian, Balkan, and Byzantine schools. Before visiting the exhibition, you must reserve your participation.

Address: Volkhonka, 15.

Arkhangelskoe

On the day of the All-Russian Museum Festival, entry to Arkhangelskoye will be free. The promotion period is May 21 – 16:00 - 20:00. In the Main Dining Room, viewers will see “ Dessert at Prince Yusupov's" And from the State Russian Museum they will bring here a portrait of Count Felix Sumarokov-Elston by artist Valentin Serov.

Address: settlement Arkhangelskoye, Krasnogorsk district

State Museum of Gulag History

On May 21, 2016, from 19:00 to 23:00, the Gulag Museum will host a thematic exhibition dedicated to the fate of people who perished in the camps. Interviews with famous experts on the history of the Gulag will be shown.

Address: Samotechny p-k, 9.

"Night of Museums" in St. Petersburg

On the night of museums on May 21, 2016, the restored Arsenal pavilion in Tsarskoe Selo will be opened in the city on the Neva. In the premises of Lenfilm you will be able to see the scenery and actors' costumes for the films Sherlock Holmes, Hamlet, and Amphibian Man. Let’s find out in detail what program “Night of Museums 2016” was prepared by the St. Petersburg organizers.

Anichkov Palace

Visitors will be able to enjoy the imperial library, the Winter Garden, a suite of state rooms, the office of the monarch Alexander III and the incredible Anichkov Garden. Each guest will be invited to make a souvenir with their own hands. On May 21, 2016, as part of the “Night of Museums” event, the Anichkov Palace will be open from 18:00 to 23:00.

Address: Nevsky Pt, 39.

Sheremetyevsky Palace

Visitors to the palace will be greeted by a portrait of Field Marshal Sheremetyev, the founder of the Fountain House estate. The restored portrait has not been exhibited for 85 years. For the first time, art lovers will see the White Living Room, whose interior was lost in the 20th century. There will be a dance master class, and at the end of the evening there will be a fire show. Opening hours of the Sheremetyev Palace May 21 – 18:00 - 23:00.

Address: Fontanka, 34.

Gatchina Palace

The famous Gatchina Palace, built by Count Orlov, also takes part in the “Night of Museums 2016” event. Visitors will be able to follow the chronology of the construction of the palace, walk through the underground passage, hide in secret rooms and take memorable photographs in the Throne Room. Opening hours of the Gatchina Palace May 21, 2016 – 18:00 - 06:00.

Address: Gatchina, Krasnoarmeysky, 1.

Botanical Garden

The Botanical Garden of Peter the Great will be open on museum night from 18:00 to 05:00. First, guests can take a tour of the greenhouse. Later there will be master classes and quests. And after midnight, theatrical and musical performances, including a fire show, are planned in the park-arboretum.

Address: prof. Popova, 2.

Zoo

The inhabitants of the St. Petersburg Zoological Garden will go to bed a little later on May 21. The doors to the last visitors to the zoo will close only at 23:00. Guests will enjoy entertaining and educational programs with interesting facts from the life of animals.

Address: Alexandrovsky Park, 1.

In addition to Moscow and St. Petersburg, dozens of Russian cities are participating in the Night of Museums 2016 festival. In Kazan, the Kazan Kremlin will be open until midnight, Omsk will turn into an emerald city, and residents of Yekaterinburg will enjoy excursions on romantic trams.